United States Fourth Circuit

In case involving claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act related to defendant law firm's effort to collect a debt from plaintiff, dismissal of plaintiff's suit based on defendant's common law litigation immunity is reversed as the FDCPA, not common law, governs the disposition of the action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/15/2007
• Decided 05/09/2007
• Published 05/09/2007

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and WILKINSON and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Ernest Paul Francis, Arlington, Virginia, for Appellant.   Ronald Scott Canter, Wolpoff & Abramson, Rockville, Maryland, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Anne S. Cruz, Wolpoff & Abramson, Rockville, Maryland, for Appellee.